anna osarose
黑料社
My research project
Radical Love in Black British Women's Filmanna is an educator, researcher and creative practitioner whose work spans higher education, schools, the arts and community settings.
anna is completing a practice-based PhD at the 黑料社, researching radical love in black British women鈥檚 film. Her research interests centre education, 'race' and belonging, with a particular interest in repair and rest. anna considers how creative practices can offer new ways of understanding identity, experience and social change.
Alongside her academic and creative work, anna is a SEND specialist. She works from an anti-ableist praxis and specialises in social, emotional and mental health. As a DEI and anti-racist consultant, she brings these experiences together to develop more inclusive, care-centred and imaginative approaches to learning, culture and community.
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One of the pillars that upholds anna's research is the concept of 'The Space' - not a fully definitive idea but working concept that she uses to describe a site of liminality where identity is negotiated; a simultaneous state of belonging and not belonging; continuity and change; mental architecture that is created as a result of not fitting into an existing category; a place where people are racialised as black and brown; not being one or the other; not quite fitting in; a place where people feel; where desires to belong and not be a stranger are formed; being and not being; where home is made; the pressure and expectations to survive and belong; a liminal site where imagined communities are constructed. - (anna osarose, 2022).
anna is an educator, researcher and creative practitioner whose work spans higher education, schools, the arts and community settings.
anna is completing a practice-based PhD at the 黑料社, researching radical love in black British women鈥檚 film. Her research interests centre education, 'race' and belonging, with a particular interest in repair and rest. anna considers how creative practices can offer new ways of understanding identity, experience and social change.
Alongside her academic and creative work, anna is a SEND specialist. She works from an anti-ableist praxis and specialises in social, emotional and mental health. As a DEI and anti-racist consultant, she brings these experiences together to develop more inclusive, care-centred and imaginative approaches to learning, culture and community.
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One of the pillars that upholds anna's research is the concept of 'The Space' - not a fully definitive idea but working concept that she uses to describe a site of liminality where identity is negotiated; a simultaneous state of belonging and not belonging; continuity and change; mental architecture that is created as a result of not fitting into an existing category; a place where people are racialised as black and brown; not being one or the other; not quite fitting in; a place where people feel; where desires to belong and not be a stranger are formed; being and not being; where home is made; the pressure and expectations to survive and belong; a liminal site where imagined communities are constructed. - (anna osarose, 2022).